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“The public cost of cleaning up the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster topped ¥4.2 trillion (roughly $40 billion) as of March, and is expected to keep climbing, the Japan Times reported …” http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/29/public-cost-fukushima-cleanup-tops-40-billion-and-expected-climb. Japan vs. South Africa’s GDP in millions of US $ is 4,730,300 (Japan) vs. 280,367 (South Africa). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal). Even Tepco-Japan are concerned about this amount of money. How would South Africa’s state-owned utility, Eskom, pay?

“Thyspunt is a rocky stretch of coast approximately 12 km WNW of Cape Saint Francis in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is just west of the beach Thysbaai and south-east of Oyster Bay. The point is near the popular surfing beach of Jeffreys Bay as well as the holiday town of St Francis Bay. It lies about 18 km SSW of the town of Humansdorp.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyspunt,_Eastern_Cape

Maarten de Wit, director of the Africa Earth Observatory Network…